Repair A Corrupt Smartcenter Installation This article details how to repair a corrupt smartcenter step-by-step. This process is valid for both Windows and *nix-based installations and platform-specific instructions are pointed out where necessary. In fact, the word “repair” is somewhat misleading as what we really do is create a new smartcenter and use configuration files …

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This article describes how to restore the SmartUpdate “Generate CPInfo” menu option which has been disabled by default since the R77 release. Background A CPInfo can be generated by the standard “cpinfo -z -o <filename>” command on the console and then either FTP’d from the gateway / management centre to a local server or copied …

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Find The Serial Number of IP Appliances Via CLI Sometimes it is necessary to find the serial number of IP appliances but you either don’t have physical access to the machine or someone has removed the sticker from the side or bottom. This article lists methods to retrieve the serial via the command line interface …

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So you want to recursively copy full FTP directory structures but don’t want to use a GUI client (or can’t)? Everyone seems to resort to ‘mget’ or multiple-get on the command line but this does not do recursive copies. The best way is to use wget which will do *exactly* what you want – copy …

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